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Researcher · Ghent University · Belgium

Walter Fiers

Walter Fiers publishes mostly in Molecular Biology, Ecology and Genetics, on topics such as Bacteriophages and microbial interactions, RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms and Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology.

World rank
#13,013
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in Belgium
#109
of 18,604
Works
77
Citations
686
Citations per work
8.9

What does Walter Fiers research?

Molecular Biology: 30.6%Ecology: 13.9%Genetics: 9.7%Epidemiology: 8.3%other fields: 37.5%31%top field
Molecular Biology30.6%Ecology13.9%Genetics9.7%Epidemiology8.3%other fields37.5%

Shares of their own output, by the field each of their topics belongs to. The grey slice is everything not listed.

  1. 1Molecular Biology31% of their works
  2. 2Ecology14% of their works
  3. 3Genetics10% of their works
  4. 4Epidemiology8% of their works
  5. 5Immunology8% of their works
  6. 6Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Walter Fiers's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Genomics, Virus, Bacteriophage, Ecology, Ribosome, Translation, Bacterial Physiology and Gene Regulation.

Size is their works in the topics tagged with each word, from their 8 largest topics. Each links to the topic it comes from most.

All 18 words, with their numbers
  1. Genomics132 topics
  2. Virus132 topics
  3. Bacteriophage101 topic
  4. Ecology101 topic
  5. Ribosome51 topic
  6. Translation51 topic
  7. Bacterial Physiology41 topic
  8. Gene Regulation41 topic
  9. Epidemiology31 topic
  10. Fc Receptors31 topic
  11. Influenza31 topic
  12. Pattern Recognition Receptors31 topic
  13. RNA-Seq31 topic
  14. Therapeutic Antibodies31 topic
  15. Toll-like Receptors31 topic
  16. sequence alignment31 topic
  17. Plant Immunity21 topic
  18. Viral RNA Silencing21 topic

Where does Walter Fiers work?

Walter Fiers's main affiliation in the publication record is Ghent University, Belgium.

How many publications and citations does Walter Fiers have?

Science Explorer counts 77 works and 686 citations for Walter Fiers, ranking #13,013 of 1,633,909 researchers worldwide on the composite score.

Ranked on field-normalised excellence (50%), output (30%) and citations (20%). Counts come from OpenAlex author records, which occasionally merge different people who share a name or split one person into several.

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